Elijah POV
The helplessness I felt when it came to the whole situation baffled me. Laila was still trapped in that horrible marriage and there was nothing I could do. She’d specifically asked me to stay out and let her handle everything. The last time we met, someone had threatened her, and yet, she’d insisted on going home and being alone in that house.
I understood her quite well but it killed me to just sit and do nothing. She’d abruptly ended the call the last time we spoke and it’s been impossible to reach her since then.
“Was she okay?”
How stupid can I be? Of course, she’s not okay, she can’t be, not with Anton in that house. He was a terror to her.
I strolled down the street in a bid to clear my head and think. Getting Laila out was paramount to me. I knew she trusted me to
